Best of Invitation

If you haven’t seen Igor Youskevitch dance this is fantastic. Gene even said that Igor was a better overall dancer than either he or Fred, but that he just wasn’t known to the public. Gene chose him for Invitation to The Dance. Igor knew tap, but made his name in ballet. As you can see, he was a master of tap also. Gene, as you know, was a master of tap and was also trained in ballet. He also mastered modern dance. There are also many parallels between Gene and Igor. They were the same age, both tra